Is it permissible to consume medicine which contains alcohol?
Haraam medicine may not be consumed normally. Only if there is no halaal alternative will it be permissible to take alcoholcontaining medicine. There is no blanket permission for impure and haraam medicine as some shallow-minded muftis hooked to mundane addictions of the nafs opine. Mothers usually feed their infants haraam items (tonics, beverages, baby food, etc.) purely as a norm. Since these haraam items have become part and parcel of rearing babies kuffaar style, Muslims too have accepted the non-Muslim way of life, hence they see with their squinteyed vision goodness and benefit in every act and practice of the aliens. Millions of Muslim mothers in remote areas rear their babies without recourse to the avalanche of haraam medical/health substances which the western industries churn out. The Imaan of a Muslim naturally repels haraam and najaasat.
